Hegel, G. W. F.

G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831) was one of the leading German philosophers of the nineteenth century. He taught at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Berlin, where he wrote his most important works, "The Phenomenology of the Spirit "(1870) and the "Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences "(1818).
Lisa Marie Anderson is an assistant professor in the Department of German at Hunter College, City University of New York. She resides in New York City.